OT: Help Me Raise Money For The Special Olympics And Others
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MGoCommunity,
I have a life long friend and a cousin who both have Autistic boys. Both love the game of hockey, as do many of us here on this blog. My cousin's son is involved in a program sponsored by the Vancouver Canucks that allows them to play hockey and participate in tournaments, all with other children who are Autistic. There is a Youtube link below ( I could not get it to autoplay, so you could also help me with that ) to see the most recent tournament that they played in.
I also play on a tournament hockey team that travels throughout and some times outside of Florida, where I now live. At the tournaments we have a nice dinner, have a little ceremony and we donate a little money to the Special Olympics, The RCMP Fallen Mambers Fund and most recently also to one of our teammates who was involved in a serious accident that left him almost dead. He has had to relearn to walk and many other simple things that we do every day without thinking about. You may know a similar story. Typically we donate $1000.00 to each of the three charites and cal it a day, but for some reason this time I am inspired and I hope you can find it within you to be inspired also. This time for our trip to the Boom Boom Cup ( yes it is run by Geoffrion's family ), Country Classic in Nashville, I want to up the ante and donate $15,000.00. $5000.00 to each. No matter the final amount I can raise, all will get equal shares. Please keep in mind that all donations go to the charities, I am not funding the trip with these monies.
Please do what ever you can. I have a goal of $2000.00 from you guys. Can you help these worthy causes? Can you beat $2000.00? I donated $50.00 to get the ball rolling and will be adding another $500.00 on that night to try and draw more from the people in the room.
Watch the video below and look at the kids smile, which is often very difficult for an Autistic child and means so much to the parents and those who work with them. Then click the GoFundMe widget below and donate. Do whatever you can. Return a buch of bottles for the deposits and use that money, it works at all the tailgates on fall saturdays.
Thank you for participating MGoers, you will help dreams come true!
A quick update...
Thanks for the upvotes, but that is not what this is about.
So far seven people have been generous enough to donate and including my $500 for the night of, we are at $805.00 in less than 24 hours.
Please help!
No offense but we had another story like this not too long ago. Unless I know exactly where the money is going, I'm not going to donate.